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Encyclopedia > Free store

Free store is a "shop", mostly inspired by anarchist ideas. You can't sell nor buy anything - the people are rather exchanging things without pricing and free of charge. You put things you need on one table and take everything you have use of from the other table.


External links

Report from the Free Store (http://www.1freeworld.org/freestore3a.html)


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Baltimore Free Store (2676 words)
The first Free Store was held in a church located in Towson, MD. The majority of the items made available had been dumpster dived with the opportunity for the public to donate as well.
In October of 2004 the early concept of the Free Store was taken and altered with the goal of becoming a self-sustaining, professionally run organization.
The first Free Store under the name of the Baltimore Free Store was held on December 18th, 2004 near the intersection of 31st Street and Greenmount Ave.
Free store - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (235 words)
A free store is a shop where people exchange goods without a pricing system: items that are no longer wanted are put on one table, and items available to be taken are put on another.
Although the roots of the "free store" lie in the anarchist movement, hippies of the 1960s ran a few initially successful free stores across North America.
Diggers (theater)— a group of early adopters of the free store concept
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